Comprehensive Job 4 Quiz with Answers: How Well Do You Know Job 4?

Answer: C — Eliphaz is the first to speak and begins a theological argument based on his experience.

KJV Reference: Job 4:1 — “Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said…”

Answer: D — Eliphaz points out Job’s past encouragement of others but questions his own endurance now.

KJV Reference: Job 4:5 — “But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.”

Answer: C — Eliphaz implied that the innocent and upright are preserved, hinting that Job must be guilty.

KJV Reference: Job 4:7 — “Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?”

Answer: C — He emphasizes divine judgment as the reason for their destruction.

KJV Reference: Job 4:9 — “By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.”

Answer: B — He refers to a secret, night-time vision that filled him with fear.

KJV Reference: Job 4:13 — “In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men…”

Answer: C — Eliphaz describes fear that made his bones shake.

KJV Reference: Job 4:14 — “Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.”

Answer: C — A spirit passed before his face, which brought dread but no clear form.

KJV Reference: Job 4:15 — “Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.”

Answer: C — The spirit questions the justice of man in comparison to God’s perfection.

KJV Reference: Job 4:17 — “Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?”

Answer: C — Even God’s holy ones are not counted as completely trustworthy in His sight.

KJV Reference: Job 4:18 — “Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly.”

Answer: B — He compares man’s vulnerability to something as delicate as a moth.

KJV Reference: Job 4:19 — “…how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay… they are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.”

Answer: C — Eliphaz refers to men as those “that dwell in houses of clay.”

KJV Reference: Job 4:19 — “How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust…”

Answer: B — He says man’s foundation is in the dust, emphasizing human frailty.

KJV Reference: Job 4:19 — “…whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?”

Answer: C — He emphasizes the brevity of life with this poetic phrase.

KJV Reference: Job 4:20 — “They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish forever without any regarding it.”

Answer: B — He laments that man perishes “without any regarding it.”

KJV Reference: Job 4:20 — “…they perish for ever without any regarding it.”

Answer: D — Eliphaz concludes by pointing out that humans don’t even recognize their own decline.

KJV Reference: Job 4:21 — “Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.”

Answer: B — Eliphaz suggests suffering is a result of guilt, not innocence.

KJV Reference: Job 4:7 — “Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?”

Answer: C — Eliphaz appeals to experience: those who sow trouble will reap it.

KJV Reference: Job 4:8 — “Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.”

Answer: C — Eliphaz uses the metaphor of lions to symbolize powerful men whose strength is broken.

KJV Reference: Job 4:10 — “The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.”

Answer: C — He claims that even the excellent in man fades, and he dies without wisdom.

KJV Reference: Job 4:21 — “They die, even without wisdom.”

Answer: C — Eliphaz presents the idea that suffering is always a result of sin, a belief challenged throughout the book.

KJV Reference: Job 4 (entire chapter) — Eliphaz repeatedly ties affliction to wrongdoing.